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I will give you a letter of introduction to the house of Blühm & Bluthner at Caracas, who will be glad to cash your drafts at the current rate of exchange, and to whose care I will address any letters I may have occasion to write to you." This concluded my business with Mr. Van Voorst, and three days later I was once more in Caracas. I found the place very little altered, less than I was myself.
He also mentioned incidentally that several Spanish officers of distinction, who had arrived a few days previously, were staying in the posada doubtless the same spoken of by Van Voorst. The day being still young, for I had left La Guayra betimes, I thought I could not do better than call on Juanita, who lived only a stone's throw from the Hotel de los Generales.
They must be shipped in three or four parcels so as to divide the risk, and I will write to Goldberg & Van Voorst to take out open policies 'by ship or ships' for how much shall we say?" "That I must leave to you, Mr. Van Voorst." "Then I will say two million dollars better make it too much than too little and two millions may not be too much.
He had hardly reached his home ere he heard that the savage had kept his vow. He had shot and killed an innocent man, one Garret Van Voorst, who was thatching the roof of a house. The chiefs of the tribe were terror-stricken, through fear of the white man's vengeance. They did not dare to go to the fort lest they should be arrested and held as hostages.
The house of Goldberg & Van Voorst, at Amsterdam, in which I was brought up, deal largely in precious stones." On this I undid my belt and poured the diamonds on a large sheet of white paper, which Mr. Van Voorst spread on his desk. "Mein Gott! Mein Gott!" he exclaimed in ecstacy, glaring at the diamonds through his big glasses and picking out the finest with his fat fingers.
They have not yet delivered up the assassins of Smits and Van Voorst, and thus these murders remain unavenged. The national character of the Dutch must suffer. God has now delivered our enemies into our hands. Let us attack them. We offer our services, and urge that united parties of soldiers and civilians assail them at several points."
But it was an ignoble warfare, cruel and ruthless, and had I not given my word to Carmen, to stand by him until the country was pacified, I should have resigned my commission much sooner than I did. Ramon, who acted as one of my orderlies, bore himself bravely and was several times wounded. In the meanwhile I received several communications from Van Voorst, and made two visits to Curaçoa.
"I am greatly obliged to you but all I require at present is about five hundred piasters, in hard money." "Ah then, you have made money where you have been?" observed Mr. Van Voorst, eying me keenly through his great horn spectacles.
By Arthur Henfrey, F.L.S. London: John Van Voorst. 1852.
I had brought with me letters of credit on a Dutch merchant at Curaçoa, of the name of Van Voorst, from whom I obtained as much coin as I thought would cover my expenses for a few months, and left the balance in his hands on deposit. With the help of this gentleman, moreover, I chartered a falucha for the voyage to La Guayra.
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